ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,345, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Area-efficient, width-adjustable signaling interface" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lateral transfer path within an adjustable-width signaling interface of an integrated circuit component is formed by a chain of logic segments that may be intercoupled in different groups to effect the lateral data transfer required in different interface width configurations, avoiding the need for a dedicated transfer path per width configuration and thereby substantially reducing number of interconnects (and thus the ...